Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (517 mails)

[Dale Ritchey <mergan14846@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/19/2010 10:22 AM, madworm_de.novell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>  Well...
>
> the last time I felt the urge to comment on such things was the blatant 
> failure of the rescue/repair system in 10.2 (or was is 10.3 ?). A fact that
> could have been discovered in 2 minutes by almost anybody. I'm bold enough to 
> believe that even a reasonable intelligent parrot could have discovered
> it and rightfully started a squawking tantrum, biting the the next best 
> person until blood drips off the "commit-button finger".
>
> Maybe it is time to reconsider what is important:
>
> a) Not missing a release date/cycle at all cost, shipping "crap" (before I 
> get fried: this is an intentional exaggeration) to the users and move all
> existing bug reports to the next version.
> b) Letting the cheese/wine properly mature until it becomes really tasty. 
> This clearly takes more time and more testers.
>
> I understand that most bugs can only be found by actually using the software, 
> and herein lies THE problem. I don't have an issue with testing a live
> CD in Virtualbox now and then, but that won't show most issues with hardware 
> (fake raid controllers etc.). I and certainly most of the other casual
> testers won't want to trash a working system with "crap". Installing a 
> reasonably aged release candidate would be OK I guess.
>
> What is a release of openSUSE supposed to be? Cutting edge "crap" that needs 
> a few "service packs", or something a bit less colorful that just works?
> Or is "it just works" monopolized by SLED?
>
> R.
>
>
>
>   
Am I reading you right? You don't want to test except maybe a minimal.
And the use launguage like this. The language you are using is quite
unacceptable
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